January 30, 2025 • 18 mins
As always, we’re gearing up for the Royal Rumble with predictions and much more. Get ready to put down your picks up against Jeffs, Producer Alex, and myself!
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Shut up bouts, I hit the fan.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome to on sanctioned Thursdays, hostling.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We fready.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays. We're back. We'll back, baby,
We're backing Saturday. Look what's up, Jeff? How are you, sir?
And how is your lovely Cardigan? Feeling good?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Decided to put her on It's Chili here and uh
and I like it, you know people people responded well
to her.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's chilly here too. And it poured rain, which LA
needed badly, and it dumped rain. I'm back in my house.
We were allowed to move back in, which was fantastics great.
No damage. My car was my little my two eighties
was covered in ash and soot and uh. Last night
in the rain, I took her for a drive in
the rain like Miami by Style. I try this seventy
(01:00):
six times, CEO, and I put this this stereo suck.
So I put like a Bluetooth speaker in there and
put on some like Miami visynth wave music and just
cruised in the rain like Don Johnson. I felt so cool,
but I used it to wash all the shit off
my car because I didn't want to go to a
car wash and I pulled into the grip. Yeah, I
dried it off with a towel and it looks totally
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clean and wash and the z is back. Baby. But
I was real nervous, man. I know it sounds petty
to be nervous about like losing your shit, but I
was so nervous about like weird things, like obvious stuff
like all the things I collected from my dad over
the last like thirty years. That's not petty, well, but
silly things like the miniatures that I painted. I was like,
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I had like a moment where I was like, man,
I'm really gonna miss that shit. And then I was like, oh,
you're not supposed to care about that. But I did care, man,
I really did. So if you guys think I'm petty,
I'm petty Freddy. Otherwise I'm just a dude who cares.
We're here to talk some more predictions. But first, our
favorite row. It's our favorite pay per view. But I
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love the Royal Rubble. You love the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I like it because I love a gimmick. When I
was a little kid watching the Royal Rumble. I was like, wait,
they're putting all my favorite wrestlers in the ring at
the same time, like having all my toys in there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It just felt yea, so much like my childhood. I
love the Rumble. I think that's what I love about it.
Two man, is it reminds me of loving wrestling as
a kid. I think you literally just explain that for me.
That's why I love it. It was like pretty much the
first pay per view that my mom let me get.
I saved up allowance money so I could buy it,
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and we got it on pay per view. She wouldn't
pay for wrestling. She didn't even want to pay for
Star Wars. She was like this stupid ass movie Star Wars.
Even like when we were we left and I liked it.
It was Return of the Jedi. She's like, that's one
of the worst movies I've ever fucking seen. And she'd like,
take a drag off her cigarette. Yeah, she had a
cup of booze. No, man, that was only when I
had I had like Karate five and she I shouldn't
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tell this story, but whatever, it's fine. She won't care.
She doesn't listen. I had this karate tournament and She
for sure was sipping some wine out of like a
seven eleven glass, but she was like cussing at the
other kids and talking shit, and they asked her to
leave after my second match because she was being too
obnoxious love so they her split. So there was probably
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some some phrensia, some wine in a box that was
that was poured into a seven eleven cup somehow. But anyway,
the Royal Rumble rules, and we're gonna get into our
predictions for that, for the tag team Championship and for
Cody Rhodes versus Kevin Owens. Did you believe Do you
believe that Kevin can actually win? Did his promo convince you?
Did he convince you that he can win only to
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lose because Cody's the new John Cena and he'll never
freaking lose until Roman comes after it again. We don't know,
but we'll get into it. But let's start with the
women's Royal Rumble match. The names that have entered so far.
Jeff Naya, Jacks, Jeff's Favorite, Bailey, Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, Naomi.
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I knew you were gonna go in the middle of
that one. Live Morgan and twenty four more wrestlers, all
to be announced. Maybe some will be announced by the
time you guys hear this, because Monday Night Raw will
have already aired. But it looks like it's only Oh,
I just realized this. I did math, all right, matth
(04:36):
There's only thirty entrants in the Royal Rumble. I hate
when they did that forty man, So thirty entrants in there.
Who's gonna win? Who's gonna get a shot at either
Rhea Ripley or what's her name Tiffany Stratton on the
SmackDown Champion the Women's Royal Rumble match. I already know
who I think is gonna win. Who do you think
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is gonna win? The whole damn a bang a bang.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Now. I always say the same thing about this stuff.
There's people I want to win and people who I
think are gonna win. Now, who I want to win
is Charlotte Flair. I think that'd be cool. I think
Charlotte's been missing from all these conversations. I think she's
kind of been a forgotten a little bit with all this.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, she's fucking jacked right now. I follow her on
Instagram and all she's been posting is like workouts like this,
and she's shredded, dude, and she's ready.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So competitive in real life, like she was an actual
female athletet. She like she takes all this shit personal.
She has no idea, Like she just won't even consider
k fabe. She. I think she's one of these people
who's like Jordan or you know, Chris Paul, who needs
something to get fired up about, to like like the
uses it as an excuse to motivate themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And so I think you're shut on with that. You
can see that in every promo she's ever cut. Yeah,
she makes she makes it personal. And I think that
Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I hope that Charlotte Flair wins and we start hearing
these conversations with Charlotte Flair's name more often. I mean,
it's really been the the Bianca Balair, It's been. It's
really been all these other names we hear and not
not her. What I think they're gonna do is some
bullshit like let Bailey win. That's what I think is
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gonna happen. Some wrestler. We're gonna we get pushed on
all the time that no one really cares about. So
that's what I think is some sort of thing. We go,
all right, they're doing this again. I'm perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, I was gonna say Bailey is No, I'm just kidding.
I am going Charlotte Flair. Not only do I hope
she's gonna win, She's winning the damn things straight up.
And Charlotte Flair doesn't have to earn her way to
the title. She wins the Royal Rumble, she gets the
title match right away. That's how it works WrestleMania. She'll
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pick who she wants to go against. Riha got her
ass at the Royal at the WrestleMania that you and
I went to in Los Angeles, So maybe she wants
revenge on Riha, or maybe she wants to teach Tiffany
Stratton the lesson and show her, Oh you think your
moon salt's the prettiest check I was doing moon salts
before you even in this company, bitch, and then she
hits her with one, So I would be cool with
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either one. Charlotte Flair is awesome and uh yeah, I
love her. So that's who I think is. That's who
I think is winning that show.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And you know how I am. I always go to
like I always say that there should be weight classes.
There should be no Daniel Brian's going in the world
heavyweight Champion of the World. Like, there's a lot of
people who wanted it to be weight classes. Now Charlotte
entering the scene, back all Jack and whatever. She's big.
Charlotte's big, so like, oh yeah, you put her with
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Rhea Ripley. You've got a real match. You got it,
Like you got two giant, strong, cool women that is believable,
that are both at the top of their game.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think that's that's the that's the feud.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I want I concur Leonardo DiCaprio said that, and catch
me if you can. The men's Royal Rumble match, we've
got John Cena who gave a very heartfelt speech and
it was very old school Sena and he asked a
lot of rhetorical questions. That's his that's his thing. Should
I Should I enter the Royal Rumble? Should like, like,
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you don't know what we're gonna say. So he's in it.
Seam Punk says he doesn't care who's in it. He's
winning it. He'll throw all Cogan out the ring. Cheap pop.
By the way, Roman Reigns. Roman Reigns is in there.
It's probably gonna be Roman Raigns. I'm just saying that
right now. Uh Seth Rollins. Seth Rollins could get in there,
he could, He could mix it up and then go
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back after World Heavyweight Championship that he lost. Drew MacIntyre
from Scotland, he could get in there. I don't know
if I don't think it's gonna be I don't think
it's Drew's time. Right now. We got La Knight, the
dark Horse, Oh, the dark Horse, La Knight. We got
Jay husso Reimi Sterio, Sammy's Aid, Shinsky, Nakamura. They're not
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gonna have Shinsk win it because he's a US champ
right now, and twenty more wrestlers to be announced twenty more. So,
who do you hope's gonna win? And who do you
think is gonna win?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Here's how much of an eight year old I am here?
Here's how much of a wrestling mark I am.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think Penta is gonna win the Royal Rumble and
it will immediately become this, like what is happening this guy?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Is he won the Rumble? Like what is happening here?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And I think that like, I think that puts him
even hotter on his path.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Didn't they do that with Shinsk back in the day, Yeah,
I think Shits came on. They totally could do that
with Penta. That would be so cool. I know on
brown Breaker Slower one. Oh wow, yeah, I forgot about
brown Breaker. It does that title that he's wearing doesn't
mean shit. He could go after whatever. Wow. Man, those
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are both really solid picks. I wouldn't either one of those. No,
I get it. Those are two good picks. Look, I
would like to see either of those. But CM Punk
made a promise on TV, and I guess he's not
allowed to break promises ever because every time he does,
he wins. So I got to pick see him Punk
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to win the Royal Rumble and he'll probably come out
as entrant number one and beat everybody's ass.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That won't pay as much on the Vegas betting lines.
Getting to see him Punk Penta.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Would pay big money.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I just picked two guys that there's zero chance they're
going to win it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But I but it's not what I want. They did it.
They did it for shins K, so there's a precedent
for it. I guarantee you there's someone in there pitching
hard let pen to win, and it's just the right
person has to hear the pitch on the right day
and if they do, they win. That's how it worked
when I was there, Like you just try to catch
Vince at the right time when he was like walking
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from lunch to his office, and hey, man, can I
get your ear for one second? What do you think
about this this dude? And he wins this match and
maybe you know he gets a run at the US title.
That sounds good? Do it? You think?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And you make Vince think it's his idea?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We did that too. Yeah, sometimes you catch on to
it though he wouldn't that though he was pretty sharp
when it came to that stuff. But but yeah, man,
I think Sampunk's gonna win it. I kind of hope
Roman Rains wins it. But he doesn't need to win
it because he can go after that title whenever he wants.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And he's already won it. He's won everything it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Don't be mad. He's a winner. Bro.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I want to know what Alex thinks, our producer, Yeah,
what are you picking? Alex Female Rumble and the Men's Rumble.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I can tell you who he picked because I'm a
professional podcaster. Jeff Producer Alex picks a returning Becky Lynch
to win the whole damn thing. I don't know why
you and I didn't think about, Oh cool, her music hits,
she runs down, everyone freaks out.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But then also she wins.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
That would be pretty badass. We're dumb for not thinking
of that. But I'm not changing. I'm still going with
Charlotte Flair. And for the men, he's got Roman picking
up the victory at the Rumble, and I think that's nah.
He doesn't. I don't think that's even close. Roman's not
gonna win it. He'll get taken out by somebody because
he can go after the title anytime he wants. He doesn't,
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he doesn't need anything. He's he's he's locked into that.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Here's so I picked two guys that I want to win.
I think Jacob Fought is gonna win no way. Already.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think that.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's gonna win the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I think he'll be in the Final Fall all the
way up to whatever. I think he'll be in the
Final four, but I don't know if he's gonna win it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And if you don't know who that is, he's the
Samo and Werewolf the w W.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Tag Team Championship. I don't have a lot of passion
for this match hasn't really been built up in a
in a fashion that I would commit to, But I'm
gonna make my pick. It's the Motor City Machine Guns
versus d I Y, which is Gargano and Champa, and
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I'm picking the champs to retain because they're better on
the mic. That's my that's my thought process. They're better
on the mic than the other guys, so that's why
I'm picking them. What say you, mister die.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I like d I Y no matter what our new
president thinks, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And Alex also picks di Io. Our producer Alex also
picks Di I Why to win. And finally, the undisputed
WWE Championship Ladder Match. No mention of the Winged Eagle
belt as well. I guess maybe Kevin Owens is delusional,
but it's Cody Roads versus Kevin Owens. Two belts on
a on a cod hangar, high high high above the
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ring that you have to climb a ladder to get to.
It's going to be. It might be a better match
than the damn Royal Rumble. And you know, somebody's falling
off the top of that frigging ladder, or Kevin Owens
is going to do a friggin moon salt off the
top of the ladder. You love gimmick matches, Yes, this
is a gimmick match within a gimmick pay per view.
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You're getting a double gimmick. This has to be your
match of the night. Yes, uh no, the Rumble will
be it, for sure. I'm going to be so excited
about that. But this, that's just a single gimmick match.
You get a double gimmicks match, right. I was just
someone on Twitter. I wish I had my Twitter handy
I could put give him a shout out. But he
said he hates this about wrestling. He hates these kind
of things.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We've all we all like we hang on every big ladder,
spot and chair. He thinks it's been too much of
that stuff. And I was like, well, I'm part of
the problem because.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, give me seventy five table spots in one match,
and I'm still hungry for more.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So I am part of the problem. This will be awesome.
I'm very very excited.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No idea which way it's gonna go, Which also makes
me more excited for the match.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I have no idea what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's good. Then that means Kevin Owens has kind of
convinced you a little bit that he might that he
might win. That's how damn goodie is on the mic
I'm gonna tell you how good he is as well.
I'm actually gonna take Kevin Owens to win. I know
I'm gonna be wrong because I know Cody Rhodes is
all might from from my hero Academia. That's the new
Captain America for those of you that don't watch anime.
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So he's gonna be the champion retain I'm sure. But
Kevin Owens has been so great in these promos, was
so great. There's not a lot of people that can
go toe to toe with him on the microphone that
he's genuinely got me convinced that he deserves to wear
the belt and have this sort of evil reign of
terror over Cody while while Roman finishes up his bloodline stuff.
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And I think he would come out in the winged
belt instead of the war instead of the World Championship
Belt as like an insult to it as well, which
would be cool. Or he could just have both one
on each shoulder and walk out. I loved when he
was the United States Champion and reminded everyone he was
Canadian every single second. I loved when he beat John
Cena when he was the NXT champion and reminded people
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like asshole Kevin Owens is a winning Kevin Owens. And
I think because he lost the last match because he
showed mercy when asshole Kevin would never show mercy. This time,
he won't make that mistake. He'll show no mercy and
he will win. Producer Alex picked Cody. I'm gonna go
up on both, you suckers. Well you didn't even pick
on this one, but I'm going up on Alex for sure.
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That's why I picked. That's all the matches that they
have listened, so I don't think there's any more unless
they do.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I love what you just did. I can't believe this,
he says. I know Cody's gonna win. I know Cody's
gonna win. They'll never let Cody lose, but I pick Kevin.
So now, no matter what, you're gonna look like a genius,
you're gonna be don't either way you go. I don't
blow up my spot. Blowing up my spot, bro, that's
my whole style. I like Cody Rhodes and a Goonther
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and all these There's certain rustles that I like better
when they're on the chase. Once they have the belt,
it feels kind of boring to me. So, uh, you know,
maybe Kevin Owen wins. Kevin Owens wins and we get
more of a Cody chasing, but I doubt that that's
the great point you know, gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But that's what I what I hope would happen.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So I'm picking. You just explained. You just explained. You
just explained how it can happen, and you're gonna speak
it into existence. So am I. We're both gonna go
up one on producer Alex. Yes, and it's gonna be
a great day. You guys. Enjoy the Royal Rumble. Uh,
sit with friends, don't watch it yourself. Get out of
your house and watch it with homies. The raw rumbles
always better with homies. Jeff, if you're in town, I
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suggest we get together and watch it together as well.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
If you're out of town, we will text and uh
and yeah, peace out. To all you guys on behalf
of Jeff On, behalf of our awesome producer, I'm your boy,
Freddie same pe. This has been a production of Iheart'smichael
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Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Shut up bouts, I hit the fan.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Welcome to on sanctioned Thursdays, hostling.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
We fready.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
What's up? Everybody? Welcome to unsanctioned Thursdays. We're back. We'll back, baby,
We're backing Saturday. Look what's up, Jeff? How are you, sir?
And how is your lovely Cardigan? Feeling good?
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Decided to put her on It's Chili here and uh
and I like it, you know people people responded well
to her.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
It's chilly here too. And it poured rain, which LA
needed badly, and it dumped rain. I'm back in my house.
We were allowed to move back in, which was fantastics great.
No damage. My car was my little my two eighties
was covered in ash and soot and uh. Last night
in the rain, I took her for a drive in
the rain like Miami by Style. I try this seventy
(01:00):
six times, CEO, and I put this this stereo suck.
So I put like a Bluetooth speaker in there and
put on some like Miami visynth wave music and just
cruised in the rain like Don Johnson. I felt so cool,
but I used it to wash all the shit off
my car because I didn't want to go to a
car wash and I pulled into the grip. Yeah, I
dried it off with a towel and it looks totally
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clean and wash and the z is back. Baby. But
I was real nervous, man. I know it sounds petty
to be nervous about like losing your shit, but I
was so nervous about like weird things, like obvious stuff
like all the things I collected from my dad over
the last like thirty years. That's not petty, well, but
silly things like the miniatures that I painted. I was like,
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I had like a moment where I was like, man,
I'm really gonna miss that shit. And then I was like, oh,
you're not supposed to care about that. But I did care, man,
I really did. So if you guys think I'm petty,
I'm petty Freddy. Otherwise I'm just a dude who cares.
We're here to talk some more predictions. But first, our
favorite row. It's our favorite pay per view. But I
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love the Royal Rubble. You love the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
I like it because I love a gimmick. When I
was a little kid watching the Royal Rumble. I was like, wait,
they're putting all my favorite wrestlers in the ring at
the same time, like having all my toys in there.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
It just felt yea, so much like my childhood. I
love the Rumble. I think that's what I love about it.
Two man, is it reminds me of loving wrestling as
a kid. I think you literally just explain that for me.
That's why I love it. It was like pretty much the
first pay per view that my mom let me get.
I saved up allowance money so I could buy it,
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and we got it on pay per view. She wouldn't
pay for wrestling. She didn't even want to pay for
Star Wars. She was like this stupid ass movie Star Wars.
Even like when we were we left and I liked it.
It was Return of the Jedi. She's like, that's one
of the worst movies I've ever fucking seen. And she'd like,
take a drag off her cigarette. Yeah, she had a
cup of booze. No, man, that was only when I
had I had like Karate five and she I shouldn't
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tell this story, but whatever, it's fine. She won't care.
She doesn't listen. I had this karate tournament and She
for sure was sipping some wine out of like a
seven eleven glass, but she was like cussing at the
other kids and talking shit, and they asked her to
leave after my second match because she was being too
obnoxious love so they her split. So there was probably
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some some phrensia, some wine in a box that was
that was poured into a seven eleven cup somehow. But anyway,
the Royal Rumble rules, and we're gonna get into our
predictions for that, for the tag team Championship and for
Cody Rhodes versus Kevin Owens. Did you believe Do you
believe that Kevin can actually win? Did his promo convince you?
Did he convince you that he can win only to
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lose because Cody's the new John Cena and he'll never
freaking lose until Roman comes after it again. We don't know,
but we'll get into it. But let's start with the
women's Royal Rumble match. The names that have entered so far.
Jeff Naya, Jacks, Jeff's Favorite, Bailey, Charlotte Flair, Bianca Belair, Naomi.
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I knew you were gonna go in the middle of
that one. Live Morgan and twenty four more wrestlers, all
to be announced. Maybe some will be announced by the
time you guys hear this, because Monday Night Raw will
have already aired. But it looks like it's only Oh,
I just realized this. I did math, all right, matth
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There's only thirty entrants in the Royal Rumble. I hate
when they did that forty man, So thirty entrants in there.
Who's gonna win? Who's gonna get a shot at either
Rhea Ripley or what's her name Tiffany Stratton on the
SmackDown Champion the Women's Royal Rumble match. I already know
who I think is gonna win. Who do you think
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is gonna win? The whole damn a bang a bang.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Now. I always say the same thing about this stuff.
There's people I want to win and people who I
think are gonna win. Now, who I want to win
is Charlotte Flair. I think that'd be cool. I think
Charlotte's been missing from all these conversations. I think she's
kind of been a forgotten a little bit with all this.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Well, she's fucking jacked right now. I follow her on
Instagram and all she's been posting is like workouts like this,
and she's shredded, dude, and she's ready.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
So competitive in real life, like she was an actual
female athletet. She like she takes all this shit personal.
She has no idea, Like she just won't even consider
k fabe. She. I think she's one of these people
who's like Jordan or you know, Chris Paul, who needs
something to get fired up about, to like like the
uses it as an excuse to motivate themselves.
Speaker 2 (05:53):
And so I think you're shut on with that. You
can see that in every promo she's ever cut. Yeah,
she makes she makes it personal. And I think that
Charlotte Flair.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
I hope that Charlotte Flair wins and we start hearing
these conversations with Charlotte Flair's name more often. I mean,
it's really been the the Bianca Balair, It's been. It's
really been all these other names we hear and not
not her. What I think they're gonna do is some
bullshit like let Bailey win. That's what I think is
(06:24):
gonna happen. Some wrestler. We're gonna we get pushed on
all the time that no one really cares about. So
that's what I think is some sort of thing. We go,
all right, they're doing this again. I'm perfect.
Speaker 2 (06:53):
Well, I was gonna say Bailey is No, I'm just kidding.
I am going Charlotte Flair. Not only do I hope
she's gonna win, She's winning the damn things straight up.
And Charlotte Flair doesn't have to earn her way to
the title. She wins the Royal Rumble, she gets the
title match right away. That's how it works WrestleMania. She'll
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pick who she wants to go against. Riha got her
ass at the Royal at the WrestleMania that you and
I went to in Los Angeles, So maybe she wants
revenge on Riha, or maybe she wants to teach Tiffany
Stratton the lesson and show her, Oh you think your
moon salt's the prettiest check I was doing moon salts
before you even in this company, bitch, and then she
hits her with one, So I would be cool with
(07:36):
either one. Charlotte Flair is awesome and uh yeah, I
love her. So that's who I think is. That's who
I think is winning that show.
Speaker 3 (07:43):
And you know how I am. I always go to
like I always say that there should be weight classes.
There should be no Daniel Brian's going in the world
heavyweight Champion of the World. Like, there's a lot of
people who wanted it to be weight classes. Now Charlotte
entering the scene, back all Jack and whatever. She's big.
Charlotte's big, so like, oh yeah, you put her with
(08:04):
Rhea Ripley. You've got a real match. You got it,
Like you got two giant, strong, cool women that is believable,
that are both at the top of their game.
Speaker 1 (08:12):
I think that's that's the that's the feud.
Speaker 2 (08:15):
I want I concur Leonardo DiCaprio said that, and catch
me if you can. The men's Royal Rumble match, we've
got John Cena who gave a very heartfelt speech and
it was very old school Sena and he asked a
lot of rhetorical questions. That's his that's his thing. Should
I Should I enter the Royal Rumble? Should like, like,
(08:38):
you don't know what we're gonna say. So he's in it.
Seam Punk says he doesn't care who's in it. He's
winning it. He'll throw all Cogan out the ring. Cheap pop.
By the way, Roman Reigns. Roman Reigns is in there.
It's probably gonna be Roman Raigns. I'm just saying that
right now. Uh Seth Rollins. Seth Rollins could get in there,
he could, He could mix it up and then go
(08:59):
back after World Heavyweight Championship that he lost. Drew MacIntyre
from Scotland, he could get in there. I don't know
if I don't think it's gonna be I don't think
it's Drew's time. Right now. We got La Knight, the
dark Horse, Oh, the dark Horse, La Knight. We got
Jay husso Reimi Sterio, Sammy's Aid, Shinsky, Nakamura. They're not
(09:20):
gonna have Shinsk win it because he's a US champ
right now, and twenty more wrestlers to be announced twenty more. So,
who do you hope's gonna win? And who do you
think is gonna win?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Here's how much of an eight year old I am here?
Here's how much of a wrestling mark I am.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I think Penta is gonna win the Royal Rumble and
it will immediately become this, like what is happening this guy?
Speaker 1 (09:53):
Is he won the Rumble? Like what is happening here?
Speaker 3 (09:56):
And I think that like, I think that puts him
even hotter on his path.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
Didn't they do that with Shinsk back in the day, Yeah,
I think Shits came on. They totally could do that
with Penta. That would be so cool. I know on
brown Breaker Slower one. Oh wow, yeah, I forgot about
brown Breaker. It does that title that he's wearing doesn't
mean shit. He could go after whatever. Wow. Man, those
(10:23):
are both really solid picks. I wouldn't either one of those. No,
I get it. Those are two good picks. Look, I
would like to see either of those. But CM Punk
made a promise on TV, and I guess he's not
allowed to break promises ever because every time he does,
he wins. So I got to pick see him Punk
(10:43):
to win the Royal Rumble and he'll probably come out
as entrant number one and beat everybody's ass.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
That won't pay as much on the Vegas betting lines.
Getting to see him Punk Penta.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
Would pay big money.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
I just picked two guys that there's zero chance they're
going to win it.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But I but it's not what I want. They did it.
They did it for shins K, so there's a precedent
for it. I guarantee you there's someone in there pitching
hard let pen to win, and it's just the right
person has to hear the pitch on the right day
and if they do, they win. That's how it worked
when I was there, Like you just try to catch
Vince at the right time when he was like walking
(11:21):
from lunch to his office, and hey, man, can I
get your ear for one second? What do you think
about this this dude? And he wins this match and
maybe you know he gets a run at the US title.
That sounds good? Do it? You think?
Speaker 1 (11:33):
And you make Vince think it's his idea?
Speaker 2 (11:36):
We did that too. Yeah, sometimes you catch on to
it though he wouldn't that though he was pretty sharp
when it came to that stuff. But but yeah, man,
I think Sampunk's gonna win it. I kind of hope
Roman Rains wins it. But he doesn't need to win
it because he can go after that title whenever he wants.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
And he's already won it. He's won everything it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Don't be mad. He's a winner. Bro.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
I want to know what Alex thinks, our producer, Yeah,
what are you picking? Alex Female Rumble and the Men's Rumble.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
I can tell you who he picked because I'm a
professional podcaster. Jeff Producer Alex picks a returning Becky Lynch
to win the whole damn thing. I don't know why
you and I didn't think about, Oh cool, her music hits,
she runs down, everyone freaks out.
Speaker 1 (12:28):
But then also she wins.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
That would be pretty badass. We're dumb for not thinking
of that. But I'm not changing. I'm still going with
Charlotte Flair. And for the men, he's got Roman picking
up the victory at the Rumble, and I think that's nah.
He doesn't. I don't think that's even close. Roman's not
gonna win it. He'll get taken out by somebody because
he can go after the title anytime he wants. He doesn't,
(12:52):
he doesn't need anything. He's he's he's locked into that.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Here's so I picked two guys that I want to win.
I think Jacob Fought is gonna win no way. Already.
Speaker 2 (13:07):
I think that.
Speaker 1 (13:08):
He's gonna win the Royal Rumble.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
I think he'll be in the Final Fall all the
way up to whatever. I think he'll be in the
Final four, but I don't know if he's gonna win it.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
And if you don't know who that is, he's the
Samo and Werewolf the w W.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Tag Team Championship. I don't have a lot of passion
for this match hasn't really been built up in a
in a fashion that I would commit to, But I'm
gonna make my pick. It's the Motor City Machine Guns
versus d I Y, which is Gargano and Champa, and
(13:42):
I'm picking the champs to retain because they're better on
the mic. That's my that's my thought process. They're better
on the mic than the other guys, so that's why
I'm picking them. What say you, mister die.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I like d I Y no matter what our new
president thinks, you know.
Speaker 2 (14:03):
And Alex also picks di Io. Our producer Alex also
picks Di I Why to win. And finally, the undisputed
WWE Championship Ladder Match. No mention of the Winged Eagle
belt as well. I guess maybe Kevin Owens is delusional,
but it's Cody Roads versus Kevin Owens. Two belts on
a on a cod hangar, high high high above the
(14:24):
ring that you have to climb a ladder to get to.
It's going to be. It might be a better match
than the damn Royal Rumble. And you know, somebody's falling
off the top of that frigging ladder, or Kevin Owens
is going to do a friggin moon salt off the
top of the ladder. You love gimmick matches, Yes, this
is a gimmick match within a gimmick pay per view.
(14:44):
You're getting a double gimmick. This has to be your
match of the night. Yes, uh no, the Rumble will
be it, for sure. I'm going to be so excited
about that. But this, that's just a single gimmick match.
You get a double gimmicks match, right. I was just
someone on Twitter. I wish I had my Twitter handy
I could put give him a shout out. But he
said he hates this about wrestling. He hates these kind
of things.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
We've all we all like we hang on every big ladder,
spot and chair. He thinks it's been too much of
that stuff. And I was like, well, I'm part of
the problem because.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I love this.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, give me seventy five table spots in one match,
and I'm still hungry for more.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
So I am part of the problem. This will be awesome.
I'm very very excited.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
No idea which way it's gonna go, Which also makes
me more excited for the match.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
I have no idea what they're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
That's good. Then that means Kevin Owens has kind of
convinced you a little bit that he might that he
might win. That's how damn goodie is on the mic
I'm gonna tell you how good he is as well.
I'm actually gonna take Kevin Owens to win. I know
I'm gonna be wrong because I know Cody Rhodes is
all might from from my hero Academia. That's the new
Captain America for those of you that don't watch anime.
(15:53):
So he's gonna be the champion retain I'm sure. But
Kevin Owens has been so great in these promos, was
so great. There's not a lot of people that can
go toe to toe with him on the microphone that
he's genuinely got me convinced that he deserves to wear
the belt and have this sort of evil reign of
terror over Cody while while Roman finishes up his bloodline stuff.
(16:14):
And I think he would come out in the winged
belt instead of the war instead of the World Championship
Belt as like an insult to it as well, which
would be cool. Or he could just have both one
on each shoulder and walk out. I loved when he
was the United States Champion and reminded everyone he was
Canadian every single second. I loved when he beat John
Cena when he was the NXT champion and reminded people
(16:35):
like asshole Kevin Owens is a winning Kevin Owens. And
I think because he lost the last match because he
showed mercy when asshole Kevin would never show mercy. This time,
he won't make that mistake. He'll show no mercy and
he will win. Producer Alex picked Cody. I'm gonna go
up on both, you suckers. Well you didn't even pick
on this one, but I'm going up on Alex for sure.
(16:57):
That's why I picked. That's all the matches that they
have listened, so I don't think there's any more unless
they do.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
I love what you just did. I can't believe this,
he says. I know Cody's gonna win. I know Cody's
gonna win. They'll never let Cody lose, but I pick Kevin.
So now, no matter what, you're gonna look like a genius,
you're gonna be don't either way you go. I don't
blow up my spot. Blowing up my spot, bro, that's
my whole style. I like Cody Rhodes and a Goonther
(17:24):
and all these There's certain rustles that I like better
when they're on the chase. Once they have the belt,
it feels kind of boring to me. So, uh, you know,
maybe Kevin Owen wins. Kevin Owens wins and we get
more of a Cody chasing, but I doubt that that's
the great point you know, gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (17:42):
But that's what I what I hope would happen.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
So I'm picking. You just explained. You just explained. You
just explained how it can happen, and you're gonna speak
it into existence. So am I. We're both gonna go
up one on producer Alex. Yes, and it's gonna be
a great day. You guys. Enjoy the Royal Rumble. Uh,
sit with friends, don't watch it yourself. Get out of
your house and watch it with homies. The raw rumbles
always better with homies. Jeff, if you're in town, I
(18:06):
suggest we get together and watch it together as well.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
I would love it.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
If you're out of town, we will text and uh
and yeah, peace out. To all you guys on behalf
of Jeff On, behalf of our awesome producer, I'm your boy,
Freddie same pe. This has been a production of Iheart'smichael
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